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2022

★★★★ Liked Watched 24 Jan 2025

This will probably go down as the most faithful recreation of this iconic character. Many writers and directors have tried to tackle this, but they almost always fail, and their failure most often comes down to a single point: they use the Bat as their stepping stone. This time, things are different.

Both the directors and writers behind this work grasped the true nature of The Batman. The Batman is an idea, a concept, and a reflection of the internal…

2005

★★★½ Liked Watched 19 Dec 2022

Silence, eyes watching, people working, you can feel the hostility and the tension, and then society lets out its frustrations and anger. This is Bashing (2005) a breaking down of society at its most vulnerable points, at its harshest moments.
Takai Yuko is a volunteer in war-torn Iraq, she was a hostage there and was released and came back to Japan, one expects people to welcome her as a hero, as a survivor, as a victim; but no, she is…

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1961

★★★★½ Liked Watched 24 Mar 2021

This is by far Shinoda's most accessible work, but don't let that fool you because it doesn't lack the depth one expects from Shinoda. On the outside the film seems simplistic but that's used as a tool because this Shinoda and the writer is none other but the master surrealist rebel Shūji Terayama. The cinematography while tame compared to other Japanese New Wave films it's still very very beautiful and I as I mentioned before it's more accessible, yet Shinoda…

1983

★★★★½ Liked Added

On the surface level this story is quite simple, a Japanese family with two kids, one of the kids is having trouble at school with his low grades and so his parents hire a tutor, and that is indeed what happens here but it’s so much more than that.

A very “flat” shot of the family having dinner with the tutor.
Director Yoshimitsu Morita always starts with the familiar and then shifts and changes it just enough to keep us…

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